| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Have you checked under your floorboards for water? | |
| Posted by: | Anthony Waller | |
| Date/Time: | 07/03/14 13:31:00 |
| All very interesting. But a problem is definitely surfacing if you excuse the pun! On the BBCs Planners programme this week, it showed how an applicant had to dig a 2m hole in a field to show that the ground was not wet from a high water table. Purely for an extension to a cemetery. The ground was bone dry even at 2m. I noticed today that the sites at Lateward Road and Brook road are filling with water at less than a metre down. And tests were apparently carried out. Oddly the planners on the TV show said the land could not be built on or used for burials if the water seeped in at 2m. Citing the displacement of water eleswhere. I would have thought in was more to do with contamination of water from decomposing corpses, but that was not mentioned at all. Here at LBH, a flooding/drainage concern was dismissed at the planning meeting as irellevant. So maybe Adam can explain the difference and what the course of action should be if it is the source of this rise in the water table. So far our surveyor has said that the recent rain will not make a difference in the water table locally for some months yet. Both worrying and dare I say it rather fascinating too. Then again we only have a damp and muddy sub floor. I might not be so fascinated if it becomes a serious problem. |